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Re: What's wrong with dmesg?

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From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:44
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In article <1992Jul18.172015.3157@fishbone.uucp>
	grace!fishbone!jdyer@moscom.com (John D. Dyer) writes:
>I tried the demsg command today and found that it doesn't work.  At
>	%/usr/etc/dmesg
>I get:
>	Jul 18 13:16
>	Can't get kernel namelist

dmesg is looking up the kernel variable _msgbuf--only there isn't
one (there was in 1.0, hmm).  There is a _pmsgbuf, however.

Looks like another gratuitous kernel mod that wasn't followed up on.
"Maybe it'll be fixed in 3.0."

					-=EPS=-
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